Arriving at a period where sexuality is at the forefront of public discussion in France, François Ozon had the potential to deliver a timely address on a subject much in need of mature screen representation. With _The New Girlfriend, _a gender bending screwball comedy, the prolific French director with an…

Killing them Softly is an unpleasant film. There is a scene in it, fairly early on, where a man, innocent in this case but not someone who could be called ‘an innocent’, is being beaten until he is vomiting blood. Punches land like bullets in a Michael Mann film, loudly…